Yahweh is all powerful, yet, my god is better than your GOD

[Justtristo]

I do not believe in gods due to the lack of credible evidence. This position is called agnostic/weak/ soft atheism. It is the most common position of most atheists here as well as high public profile atheist,such as Richard Dawkins.

I guess it's common among atheists with any scientific training and/or an understanding of some of the basic rules of logic:

IF I assert "there is no god" or "I believe there is no god", I make a positive claim ,and that attracts the burden of proof. I cannot prove there is no god, neither has anyone else been able to do so in recorded history. Therefore, I make no claims, asserting only "I do not believe" .In daily life, this position is moot, as I behave AS IF there are no gods .

Ah "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." argument. I don't personally subscribe to that line of thinking even concerning the question whether or not a god/s exist. However there is nothing wrong with it although.

Victor Stenger explained how in many cases an absence of credible evidence provides "robust" evidence of evidence. Stenger gave an example of elephants have never seen seen roaming in Yellowstone National Park. Stenger goes on further to say that even if such elephants were extremely secretive, we would know they existed through ample physical signs (droppings, crushed vegetation, bones of dead elephants etc). Hence Stenger argues that we can be confident that no elephants live in Yellowstone park.

Stenger was using this line of thought concerning the existence of Yahweh. However I can see it used for every deity humans currently believe in. Also I could use that line of thinking to disprove the existence of a deist god. Because even a deist god would leave some evidence (For example; if the use of the big bang was never explained). As a guy I once spoke to offline said once "If evidence for god was discovered, the person who found that evidence would win the nobel prize".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-ste...82169.html This is an article where Victor Stenger used the argument I outlined, his books God The Failed Hypothesis and The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason expand on this in much more detail.